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1672 in literature
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The year
1672 in literature
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Events
2
New books
3
New drama
4
Births
5
Deaths
Events
In London, the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
is destroyed by fire. The
King's Company
moves into the theatre at
Lincoln's Inn Fields
, which their rivals the
Duke's Company
left the previous year.
During the 1672–73 theatre season,
Thomas Killigrew
mounts another all-female production of his
The Parson's Wedding
with the King's Company. (The first occurred in
1664
.)
Beaumont and Fletcher
's
Philaster
and
Dryden's
Secret Love
were also staged with all-women casts in this time; Dryden wrote new Prologues for the productions.
New books
Richard Cumberland
-
De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
Nathaniel Hodges
-
Loimologia
John Milton
-
Art of Logic
Pierre Nicole
-
A Discourse Against Plays and Romances
New drama
Anonymous -
Emilia
(adapted from the
Costanza di Rosamondo
of Aurelio Aureli)
Anonymous -
The Illustrious Slaves
John Dryden
-
The Assignation
-
Marriage a la Mode
Esprit Fléchier
- Funeral sermon for Madame de Montausier
John Lacy
-
The Old Troop
published
Molière
-
Les femmes savantes
Henry Nevil Payne
-
The Morning Ramble
Jean Racine
-
Bajazet
Thomas Shadwell
-
Epsom Wells
-
The Miser
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
-
The Rehearsal
published
Births
January 18
-
Antoine Houdar de la Motte
(died
1731
)
May 1
-
Joseph Addison
(died
1719
)
August 2
-
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
(died
1733
)
Deaths
September 12
-
Tanneguy Lefebvre
(born
1615
)
September 16
-
Anne Bradstreet
, first American female author to be published (born c.
1612
)
December 7
-
Richard Bellingham
, later a character in
Nathaniel Hawthorne
's
The Scarlet Letter
(born
1592
)
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